Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia Shalva Papuashvili states that the amendment related to the third President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, made to the European Council resolution is an "attempt to rewrite history".

Papuashvili responded to his letter sent to the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and expressed hope that in the future the PACE members will be more responsible when dealing with the texts related to Georgia.

"This is an attempt to rewrite history and of course we must not allow it. We will not be right, nor will the European Council be right, if we rewrite history with such records.

To put everything aside, the European Court of Human Rights is a body of the Council of Europe, which directly said and recognized the guilt of Mikheil Saakashvili in the Girgvliani case. Such amendments to the resolution cast a shadow on the document.

I hope that in the future the members of the Council of Europe Assembly will look at the texts related to Georgia from this responsibility, since rewriting history is not the right thing to do and we should have an appropriate response to all such attempts. This is our responsibility to our past, present and future," Papuashvili said.

The Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia wrote a letter to the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Martinus Tiny Kox, stating that the inclusion of Mikheil Saakashvili in the amendment to the Resolution changes the essence and spirit of the Resolution and undermines the fundamental values of PACE and the credibility of the organisation in upholding human rights, democracy and the rule of law across Europe.

According to Shalva Papuashvili, the unfounded provisions on Mr. Saakashvili jeopardize the credibility of PACE within the wider Georgian public and erode efforts to solidify support for the ambitious reform agenda aligned with recommendations of the relevant PACE resolutions.